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Current News and Upcoming Events | Noticias Actuales y Próximos Eventos

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Merced City News/Upcoming Events: HOPe Lab and Cultiva Central Valley are collaborating with the Rural Health Equity and Learning Collaborative (HEAL) to host 1 of 3 a lunch and learning series in Merced. This series presents on immigration, health, and wellbeing in the San Joaquin Valley. Everyone...

Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda

Person: Staff Research Associate
Brenda Castañeda-Castañeda is a Staff Research Associate in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab in the Department of Public Health. Brenda is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Public Health at UC Berkeley. In her role at the HOPe Lab, Brenda assists with qualitative research...

Hello, I'm Dr. Irene Yen

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I'm the Principal Investigator and Director of the Lab. I'm a social epidemiologist, a public health professor at the University of California Merced and a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Research Leadership fellow. My research is currently centered on the question of how place influences...

Kimberly Montanez

Person: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Kimberly Montanez is a recent graduate from UC Merced with a bachelor's degree in public health. She will now be participating in a year-long internship with the National Health Corps as an outreach and enrollment coordinator with Livingston Community Health. Kimberly is a Central Valley local and...

Our current research on housing, opportunity, place, and education

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Educational Trajectories and Health This is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study investigating education trajectories, the paths people take to complete their education, how it differs by sex, race/ethnicity, and family circumstances, and what the effect of different trajectories is on...